Saturday, December 31, 2016

Happy New Year from 2018 Mayor-Elect Joe Viglione, Editor, Medford Info Central.com

893,914 @ 6:02 pm December 31, 2016

Greetings my fellow Medford Residents:

As your Mayor I intend to take a 50% cut in salary for mayor and challenge every single candidate in 2017 running for the corner office to do the same.

We are going to hire the VERY BEST TALENT to run city hall, and we are going to review every paycheck to government employees to give some relief to the taxpayers of our city.  The vacation spree that one city hall employee allegedly took - in alleged violation of city council rules - will become a thing of the past.  Stephanie Burke's "system" gifts her hack friends with lots of money they have not earned, nor do they have the qualifications to take. That will end and an investigation into their antics will be initiated.

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Here are some of the topics I will address in my first One Hundred Days in Office:

---Repairing our roads
---addressing water and sewer infrastructure in a way that gets results quickly and efficiently
---Charter Review and Charter CHANGE
---Term Limits something Muccini-Burke has stated, on record, that she is opposed to. What a huge red flag on Stephanie Muccini-Burke 
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Chief Gilberti and his excellent staff will be given ALL the resources that we can muster to ensure that they have the most efficient and up to date tools to keep our city and its residents safe.

Public Safety First.
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Police Chief Leo A. Sacco, Jr. will be relieved of his duties.

A respected outside agency will be hired to thoroughly investigate the practices of Sacco and to see if there is any Dereliction of Duty.

Solicitor Mark E. Rumley will be replaced.
A respected outside agency will be hired to review Mr. Rumley's work as city solicitor and, if found deficient, appropriate measures will be taken.
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THE QUESTION OF DERELICTION OF DUTY

Stephanie Muccini-Burke's attendance at City Hall will be reviewed, along with a review of the work by her staff.  Vacation time by Mrs. Burke and her staff will be looked at carefully.


It goes without saying that the entire Muccini-Burke staff will be replaced with people who have actual experience in running a city effectively.
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The Pat Fiorello Middle School will replace the old McGlynn School. 

State Rep Paul Donato will be asked to step down from his position...the City Council will make him an offer he can't refuse in light of Mr. Donato saying to a news outlet that he would love to be offered a job paying more money.

We will thank Mr. Donato for his many years of service with the position of Honorary Crosswalk Guard at the Fiorello Middle School.
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The School Committee and the City Council will make Paulette Van der Kloot and Not-so "Super" superintendent Belson an offer they can't refuse (before we change the charter and boot the useless city council, saving 200K a year!)
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THE MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY

Barbara Pirri and Sam Vivian...start looking for a job.  A complete overhaul of that agency with city hall working closely with HUD to stop alleged favoritism and nonsense that was a black eye on Medford during the hellish reign of Bocci with Bobby
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Lots more.

Pay To Park will be a thing of the past.


Medford's Access Station will enjoy one hundred percent of the franchise fee while a full investigation of the previous access TV board of directors will be initiated without the alleged interference of the current city solicitor, who only happened to be a mayoral appointee to the very board he was supposed to later be investigating.   Whose investigation was not thorough or substantial, in the opinion of this expert.

Weekly talks on access TV with citizens at a gorgeous new access TV station will be popular and informative.

The access station will be the centerpiece of the revitalization of Medford Square, Mr. Donato.


to be continued

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Great Line from THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

893,813 @ 12:11 pm
Jeffrey Pelt: Listen, I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops. But it also means I keep my options open.


[last lines]
Captain Ramius: "... and the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home." Christopher Columbus.
Jack Ryan: Welcome to the New World, Captain.

Sieg Heil Vladmir Trump!

Trump "won" by aligning himself with this Russian reprobate

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin 

(/ˈptɪn/RussianВлади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тинIPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn]; born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician who is the current President of the Russian Federationholding the office since 7 May 2012.[1][2] He was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000, President from 2000 to 2008, and again Prime Minister from 2008 to 2012.[3] During his second term as Prime Minister, he was the Chairman of the United Russia Party, the ruling party.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

Sieg Heil
ˌsēɡ ˈhīl/
exclamation
  1. a victory salute used originally by Nazis at political rallies.

Stephanie Trump and Donald Muccini-Burke, why my campaigning for Mayor is Essential

893,797 @ 11:38 am
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Friday, December 30, 2016

A Little Revolution Every Once in Awhile

893,555 @ 6:04 pm

"A little revolution every once in awhile is a good thing, don't you think?"

Sean Connery to Alec Baldwin 2 hours and eleven minutes into the film
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER


http://medford.wickedlocal.com/news/20161207/medford-breaks-ground-on-new-access-tv-studio

Darth Stephanie should have CRH - Communist Red Hair and she would be the Blunt for Red October or something like that.

She blunted public access

Heidi Riccio at School Committee last summer
Access will open "...in September."

Stephanie Muccini-Burke corrected Riccio and said "...in October."

Riccio - I believe - came back and said "September."  Check the video


At the high school in November speaking with Roy Belson, the Superintendent told me that access would open "In January."

The Medford Sanskrit now says Spring 2017
http://medford.wickedlocal.com/news/20161207/medford-breaks-ground-on-new-access-tv-studio 


What a joke.  I don't care if only ONE person in the city wanted to use it ...Mayoral candidate Judge John Byers or Dan Hurley - that the ratepayers fund this every month and that Stephanie sees no urgency means she perpetrated THE STUNT IN RED OCTOBER

In 2016 Stephanie promised October.
It was a stunt, very transparent, downright evil 

Evil Darth Stephanie does NOT want any people running for mayor on access TV.

She is STEALING ACCESS TV by dragging her feet, and YOU, dear resident, are not part of her plan.  She just wants you to fund all of her delusions.


"Yup.  Burp."   From a corrupt court clerk in the peanut gallery.  Which clerk?  Take your pick, but not former clerk James Burke, they already sent that rat to prison. 

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2017. All of the access monies

893,496@2:11 pm

Michael Marks -in 2017 - file for a removal of home rule petition where city hijacks most of cable Access TV monies. 

And go after MCC for missing funds

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Jan 3 - First Meeting of City Council 2017 with Michael Marks as VP

893,468 @ 12:14 pm
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From City Clerk
Please see attached Medford City Council Meeting Agenda 1-3-2017 

City Hall will be closed on Monday, 
January 2, 2017



Editor JV: I'm most interested in the words in the "oath of office." Will be worth the $5.00 for a DVD copy



Apologies for Fewer Posts - as we work our Mayoral Campaign

893,452 @ 11:41 am
 
My days are jam-packed with things to do.

Many apologies for fewer posts...but look at the bright side: the Transcript is devoid of any news whatsoever this Holiday Season...and it isn't because of the banishment of Alex "the typist" Ruppenthal who types Nell's dictation rather than go out and get the stories on his own ... it's because Nell is busy busy busy with all those chocolate bon bons she got for Christmas, probably alleged bribery from the corner office!* ...



So last night as I was leaving one of the nightclubs in the chilly, rainy, freezing night, some drunk - the poor slob - kept falling on the concrete.  Some younger twenty-something dude kept picking the gray-haired guy up, and he kept falling.

I said to the younger guy "That is very nice of you. I think he's a court clerk up in Middlesex Superior Court and he has to get to work in eight hours."

They didn't seem to know what the hell I was talking about...but I thought it was funny...


oh well... 

*I'm not that cold. I also asked if they needed to call for an ambulance.  The poor dude was so inebriated it looked like he wanted to say "Remember what I called you at the Chev-ha-laier..."  (that is drunk pronunciation for Chevalier)



JV for Mayor 44 1/2 weeks - Traffic Control letter to Freddy and Michael

893,413 @ 11:33 am
 

Thursday, December 29, 2016

An Open Letter to Michael Marks and Freddy Dello Russo Jr.

893,046@1:25 pm

Traffic Control
An Open Letter to Michael and Freddy

Coming later today.

JV for Mayor
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Alert: Disabled Police and Sheriff's Foundation - Alert

892,990 @ 11:06 am 
892,981 @ 10:57 am
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ALERT: ONLY 11 PERCENT goes to the Disabled Police and Sheriff's Foundation. 

December 29, 2016 @ 10:39 AM

"helppolice dot org" indeed!
http://www.helppolice.org/documents/Home_Security_and_Safety_Tips.pdf
Your Generosity Will Help Save Lives
Ya think????  Not with only eleven percent going to the men and women who need it.
http://helppolice.org

A phone call on cellphone 774-203-4213 at 10:39 am. The fellow has a script and slips in "on this recorded line" so I keep talking over his script till he listens to me and my question is this: "How much money goes directly to the Disabled Police and sheriffs and he says "a minimum of 11%" - meaning - that Eighty Nine percent is pocketed by some foundation calling you on your cellphone. A similar phone call came in a week or two ago on the landline and it was the same story --- so the fellow gives me a phone # to call about "the foundation" 800 - 342-0149
"we do not have a representative available at this time we apologize for any inconvenience the call may have caused you blah blah blah.

I call the original 774 number and get pretty much the same malarkey on the 800 number the fellow gave to me for more information and for questions.

SO - ALWAYS ask how much money goes to the disabled police and how much goes to the "foundation" - and what I tell them is that I give to charities that give the majority of the money to where it is intended to go.

You can always find the percentages online if you look for them...and if you can't find the percentages, hang up on them.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Why Medford Needs a New Mayor - An Editorial Dec 28, 2016

892,747 @ 5:16 pm
107,253 to one million page views


The failure of the Muccini-Burke organization is obvious.  Rumor has it a woman in the Administration took THREE VACATIONS in 2016, allegedly. 

Rumor has it Stephanie Burke hardly shows up for work.


Rumor has it that the mice will play in Medford because Mrs. Burke and the allegedly drunk husband think they are ENTITLED to ruin the city of Medford.


Think again.  November 7th is not that far off!

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366 days in 2016 
As of Saturday it will have been 
363 days of horror!

365 days in 2017

Do you really want Muccini-Burke to go unchecked up to November 7th, the next election cycle?



Just after 10 a.m. on Jan. 4, Burke was officially sworn in as the city's first new mayor in nearly three decades. A day earlier, about 500 people packed into Medford High School's Caron Theater - which seats only 400 - to witness Burke's ceremonial inauguration.

http://medford.wickedlocal.com/news/20160106/medford-holds-inauguration-ceremonies-burke-it-starts-today

Vote for me I'll set you free

JV for Mayor

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2016
The total number of days between Friday, January 1st, 2016 and Sunday, January 1st, 2017 is 366 days. This is equal to 1 year.

This does not include the end date, so it's accurate if you're measuring your age in days, or the total days between the start and end date.


2017  365 days

Pop Explosion Radio Show Closes Out 2016 Have Fun!

892,681 @ 1:56 pm 
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1)Sounds Orchestral   Cast Your Fate to the Wind

2)Tommy James and the Shondells "Ball of Fire"

3)Blue Cheer  "I'm the Light"

4)Steve Dennis   "Reboot"

5)The Cowsills  "The Rain, the Park and Other Things"

6)Raphaelle   "Simple Things"
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7)Paul Wu  10 曲目 10
from Taiwan, Province of China
 https://soundcloud.com/paul-wu-4


8)Marianne Faithful  "Ruby Tuesday"

Interview - Frank D.S. on the films Nocturnal Animals and Jackie

9)Jerry Goldsmith Theme from L.A. Confidential "Rollo Tomasi" by the great Jerry Goldsmith

10)Rollo Tomasi   Walkin' on a Pretty Day"
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=rollo%20tomasi%20quartet

Rollo Tomasi Walkin' on a Pretty Day Dance Monkey Remix by Joe Vig with Marianne Safka Melanie Faithful "California Dreamin'

11)Melanie Safka  "California Dreamin' / Beautiful People"

12)We Five  "You Were On My Mind"

13)Diana Ross  "Remember Me"

14)Mailman Carl  "Phyrgia"
from the CD Painfully Existentialist
https://mailmancarl.bandcamp.com/album/painfully-existentialist

1:58:36 pm
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15)Ray Charles  "You Don't Know Me"

16)Rollo Tomasi Quartet  "If You Want Me To Stay"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PBrudLN3tk

17)Stevie Wonder "Sunny"  (Live)

18)Ozlo  "Molasses"
https://ozlotheband.bandcamp.com/track/molasses

19)Barry Manilow  "All I Have To Do Is Dream"

20)Horse Mode  "Highly Respected and Esteemed Aquaintences " from the album Defenestrator
https://horsemode.bandcamp.com/

(wiped out Bette Midler "Strangers in the Night" as I wasn't in the mood for disco)

21)The Wildweeds  "No Good To Cry"

22)The Beatles "A World Without Love"

23)The Guilloteenagers  "Fifty Seconds"

24)Surprise Party  "My Friend"
https://surpriseparty.bandcamp.com/

25)The Complaints   Nothing (Leads You Back)

26)The Beatles  World Without Love

27)Princess Leia    He's My Brother

28)Positive Negative Man "Twister"   at PA's Lounge Somerville in January

Medford's own:
29)Jesse and the Hogg Brothers  "White Trash Meth Lab"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnxIxLFzSyA

30)Thunderclap Newman  "Something IN The Air"
"Hand out the arms and ammo / we're going to blast our way through here....'cause the revolution's here...and you know that it's right..."

31)Georgette Jones  Stand By Your Man

32)The Band "Daniel and the Sacred Harp"

On to 2017!!!

Joe Vig for Mayor!



Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Unsexy Rexy is no longer Coach of the Buffalo Bills


892,520 @ 11:16 pm

HE COULDN'T BUFFALO BUFFALO!

OK, not a Medford story, but he was the biggest clown in football...past tense since the opinion pieces are already saying it was Rex's last waltz

Hey...Buffalo...take Brian S. Burke to replace Rex...please!  At least he's got the vulgar mouth!

Rex Ryan fired as Bills' postseason drought reaches 17 seasons

 https://abc7news.com/sports/rex-ryan-fired-as-bills-postseason-drought-reaches-17-seasons/1674850/

 



#1 Story post-Christmas? Editor as New Mayor of Medford!!!!!

The Court System in Somerville, Cambridge and Middlesex

892,312  @ 4:44 pm

IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF WILL SMITH from I ROBOT
"There's No Way My Luck is That Bad"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDkSQwdEBk 

CLERKS THAT ARE EITHER INCOMPETENT OR MALICIOUS

EITHER WAY, THEY NEED TO BE FIRED OR PROSECUTED

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DECEMBER 19, 2016
MYRA IN CAMBRIDGE COURT LEAVES TWO INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE 'BRUTALIZED" A VICTIM ALONE WITH THE VICTIM - THE AGGRESSORS BLOCKING THE DOORWAY, SNICKERING AND LAUGHING AT THEIR PREY



https://youtu.be/dWu9MdF2VBE?t=61

OCTOBER 15, 2015
BRIAN S. BURKE, MARRIED TO STEPHANIE MUCCINI-BURKE AT THE GREAT DEBATE AT THE CHEVALIER

HE CALLS A VICTIM A 'MOTHERFXXER'

THE MIGHTY MICHAEL SULLIVAN IN HIS NEGLIGENCE LETS HIS BUDDY BRIAN OFF THE HOOK WHILE CLERK BURKE VIOLATED THE CANON OF ETHICS BY BEING A VULGAR JERK IN PUBLIC
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MARGARET WEEKS IN SOMERVILLE COURT XEROXED ONE OF TWO VICTORIES BACK TO BACK, NULLIFYING A VICTORY UNTIL JUDGE LAMOTHE REINSTATED IT.

WILLIAM G. FARRELL IN SOMERVILLE COURT LIED UNDER OATH.

AN ATTORNEY SAID "MY THREE SONS WANT TO STRANGLE HIM...I'M GOING TO KILL HIM"

FARRELL SAYS HE REMEMBERS MY THREE SONS BECAUSE OF THE TV SHOW BUT NOT THE DEATH THREAT, UNDER OATH AFTER THE VICTIM GOT A SUBPOENA FROM JUDGE MAURICE FLYNN ON THE CLERK, 

THE ATTORNEY THROWS FARRELL'S CRIMINAL GIFT OF PERJURY UNDER THE BUS BY LOOKING AT CLERK BRIAN SULLIVAN AND SAYING "BUT WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO KILL HIM?"  TWICE

CLERK JOE RILEY IN SOMERVILLE GAVE THE VICTIM PROTECTION AS HE WALKED TO HIS VEHICLE, BUT THE ATTORNEY GOT OFF.

CAMBRIDGE
SOMERVILLE
MIDDLESEX SUPERIOR COURT

DOESN'T MICHAEL SULLIVAN HAVE JURISDICTION AND CONNECTIONS IN THESE THREE COURTHOUSES?

THAT'S WHY THE VICTIM IS GOING TO BE THE NEXT MAYOR OF MEDFORD
 

A Strong New Mayor for Medford

891,235@11:40 am Dec 27

Time to fix our city

The current mayor is so predictable now, self-serving and lacking in good judgment.  Just look at Stephanie's very poor choice for the father of her kids

Stephanie's poor choices now impact ypur life in a negative way.

People who voted for her feel like they were sold a bill of goods and many if thise who voted for her are telling me orrsonally that they have buyer's remorse and wish that they had voted for Bob Penta

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Sunday, December 25, 2016

George Michael. Dead. He must have listened to his own records

891,814@3:13 pm Dec 26
891,526@8:12 pm Dec 25

Brutal year

But George Michael was no David Bowie

Wham Bam Bam

45 weeks to a new Mayor for Medford Massachusetts

Community Standards - By Gore Vidal

891,445@2:40 pm
891,382 @ 10:53 am
891,367 !@ 10:17 am

. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.


The City of Medford is PURE PORNOGRAPHY
Breckinridge. The novel was published shortly after an anti-pornography ruling by the Supreme Court; Vidal responded by replacing the profanity in his novel with the names of the Justices involved (e.g., "He thrust his enormous Rehnquist deep within her Whizzer White", etc.)

In his introduction to the novel, Vidal mentions the Supreme Court decision Miller v. California, which in his words "leaves to each community the right to decide what is pornography." Saying that the decision has "alarmed and confused peddlers of smut" by eliminating guidelines, Vidal says he has decided to substitute the names of the five Justices who voted for the decision, plus the names of anti-pornography crusaders Charles Keating of Citizens for Decent Literature and Father Morton A. Hill, S.J. of Morality in Media (whom Vidal had debated on The David Susskind Show in 1968), for the "dirty words." He has done this to conform to the Supreme Court's imposition of the "community standards" test, as he wants "to conform with the letter and spirit of the Court's decision."

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_(novel)

. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.
Swiping Gore Vidal's idea  (Mr. Veedle from the Lily Tomlin comedy lp,) We can take names of prominent Medford citizens to prove a point:

The Varsity Coach Thrust His Enormous Skerry deep inside of her Scarpelli! (Which would mean the Skerry is a walking...oh, you don't need it explained to you.  Which Skerry?  Both of them!!!)

The Varsity coach put his hands on both of her Muccinis and with his Sacco he xxxxxx the xxxxxx of her Rumley 

Her Lebert was drooling with anticipation as she Knighted the varsity coach's Skerry with her wagging Dello Russo.   Her Falco responded with delight as she twirled upside down giving that varsity coach a full Belson around her Dever-Wood.  She was insatiable as once she reached her Feltch she was overcome with Feltch after Feltch while her ravenous extended Nestor demanded...and got... more.
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Whomever the daddy of that young lady is will hardly get the "father of the year" award.   Forget about community standards, those individual have no family standards.  Ho hum, rather than be held accountable for his own bad actions the moron will get all vindictive and nasty.  Just proving what an embarrassment he truly is to this city.

from our newest parody: The Varsity Coach Cometh at Christmas

with a foreword from the late Mae West:
Mae West said: "Don't forget to remind me about the policeman's balls — — I mean police show!" (movie dialogue from "Myra Breckinridge")    West's last rock album (released in 1972) on MGM Records, titled Great Balls of Fire, covered

 . The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred..

The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.

To quote that extra friendly late old perv DJ from WBCN

"This is going to be fun!"


"Delusional"
City Solicitor Mark Rumley on this Blog.


See!   We thank Mr. Rumley for such protections as people in this damn city get the wrong ideas.



. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

891,005 108,995 to One Million Page Views!

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108,995 to One Million Page Views!


Merry Christmas to All

A new Mayor in 2017!

Get ready! 


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'Twas the Night Before Christmas in Medford

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Intro:  Si ti dugnu a lu scarparu
iddu va iddu veni


'Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house
the varsity coach had his hand up her blouse
the drunken old futhermucker
thinks he's the boss
at dinner he makes
the sign of  La Crosse 
(a street sign from La Crosse Wisconsin
Mons Anderson House at 410 Cass Street near beautiful downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin.)


The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While sugar-plum fairies danced in their heads.

Some daffy old witch and the drunk in his cap,
A fat Santa to give / that old homo a slap

Mrs. Corleone sings here:
C'è la luna 'n 'menzu o' mari 
(and the moon in the middle above the sea)
mamma mia m'ha' maritari
figghia mia a 'ccu t'ha a dari
mamma mia ce pensa tu.

to be continued


This is a work of fiction.  Honest.  A delusional unpretty solicitor will tell you that.  Really.
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Clement Clarke Moore (1779 - 1863) wrote the poem Twas the night before Christmas also called “A Visit from St. Nicholas" in 1822. It is now the tradition in many American families to read the poem every Christmas Eve.


 
Twas the Night before Christmas Poe
 
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"


Twas the Night before Christmas Poem
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In 2017 / the city  / couldn't be gayer
with news of the new / homosexual mayor